TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Keller, Wolfgang
AU  - Utar, Hale
        TI  - International Trade and Job Polarization: Evidence at the Worker Level
        PY  - 2023/Aug/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 16381
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp16381
        AB  - We employ employer-employee matched data from Denmark and utilize plausibly exogenous variation in the rise of import competition due to the dismantling of import quotas as China entered the World Trade Organization to show, first, that rising import competition has led to reduced employment in mid-wage occupations compensated by an increased likelihood of employment in both low-wage and high-wage occupations. 
Workers with higher education are more likely to move from mid- to high-wage occupations due to trade compared to moving from mid- to low-wage occupations. Employing task content information of detailed occupations, we also show that workers performing manual tasks are the ones most affected by import competition independently of the routine-task intensity of occupations. This implies that the effect of import competition is distinct from that of routine task-replacing technological change

        KW  - job polarization
KW  - employer-employee matched data
KW  - import competition
KW  - job trajectories of individual workers
KW  - trade
KW  - technology
KW  - task
KW  - China
KW  - Denmark
        ER  -